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Recently, Italy hosted the G-20 foreign ministers’ meeting to discuss the fight against Covid-19 and how to speed up the recovery of the global economy and boost sustainable development in Africa.
About the Meeting
It criticized China and Russia for engaging in vaccine diplomacy.
Vaccine diplomacy is the branch of global health diplomacy in which a nation uses the development or delivery of vaccines to strengthen ties with other nations.
Promoting a science-based holistic One Health approach.
‘One Health’ is an approach to designing and implementing programmes, policies, in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes.
It also emphasised that Increased climate variability and extreme weather events impact agriculture output and are among the forces driving the rise in global hunger.
On Africa:
The Covid-19 pandemic, conflict, drought, economic woes, and extreme weather are reversing years of progress.
In the whole of Africa, 250 million people were experiencing hunger, which is nearly 20% of the population (as of 2019).
India’s Stand in the meeting
Flagged the issue of “vaccine equity”
It entails both affordability of vaccines and access opportunities for populations across the world, irrespective of geography and geopolitics.
Economy needs decentralised globalisation, including in manufacturing, food and health.
